Re: Playstation 2 has as much FPU power as Merced?

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From: Russ Williams
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 00:00

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Chris Ebenezer <chriseb@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:
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>I went to http://www.playstation.com, according to the information
>there.  The I/O processor has a R3000 core, but then heres a
>suprise, the 128 bit CPU is implementing a MIPS IV subset!

Yup. Plus the 107 extra vector/MM ops they've added.

>I thought Sony had stated that they weren't going to go with MIPS
>for the next generation console ?

Probably just a rumour. Until a couple of days ago SCEI refused
to even admit that they were working on a PS2...

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Russ

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From: "Russ Williams" <russ@algorithm.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Playstation 2 has as much FPU power as Merced?
Date: 1999/03/05
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